Well while I was waiting for approval, I started reading through the 45 pages on the BrewTalk thread. One of BrunDog's posts talk about logs for all sensors being available as csv files.

So I could write a Windows service with a file watcher to grab values from the relevant log and upload to my website. The one problem I see is associating a BruControl csv file with a ferment log in my website. I'm not sure if the log file could include the GUID from my website somehow so I could associate them?

Is the target value for a ferment saved out to a log file or setting file somewhere? Perhaps my Windows service could update that file as well?

I'm waiting on all the parts to turn up so I can start building the ferment control system to provide to a local micro-brewery. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities, both with the BruControl software and also personally.

Cheers,
Angus.

Hi. You could pull the data off the data files via a file watcher, as you mentioned. But I think we need to create a pathway to pass information back and forth to third party sources. We have it on the docket so will look to accelerate it.  We’ll discuss possible mechanisms to do this and build something  ASAP. 

That's good news.

I've pasted some php below which shows the use of the requests module in my CraftBeerPi plugin. It would be awesome if something along the same lines was available in BruControl

bc_uri = " https://api.brewerschronicle.com/api/readings/cbpi "
....
....
....
/* Code to submit current temp via API to my website */
ferment_id = components[1]
temp = fermenter.instance.get_temp()
unit = cbpi.get_config_parameter("unit", "C")
data = {"api_key": api_key, "ferment_id": ferment_id, "temperature": temp, "temp_unit": unit}
logBC("Temperature post payload: {0}".format(data))
response = requests.post(bc_uri, json=data)

/*
My website calculates current ferment target temperature based on a ferment schedule and either days into ferment or gravity readings submitted via Tilt or iSpindel hydrometers
This following section posts the target temp to the CraftBeerPi API.
*/
data = response.json()
set_temp = data['set_temp']
temp_api_url = "http://localhost:5000/api/fermenter/{0}/targettemp/{1}".format(fermenter.id, set_temp)
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
logBC(temp_api_url)
requests.post(temp_api_url, data="", headers = headers, timeout = 1)

I had a sudden thought this morning: you could include vb.net scripts into BruControl and compile them up. That would be the ultimate solution.

I haven't actually done this before so can't really provide any quality links or samples, but here is a couple of quick links

http://www.drdobbs.com/add-vbnet-scripting-to-net-apps/184416634
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/304654/how-to-programmatically-compile-code-by-using-the-visual-basic-net-or

That way, my script could do the posting to my API. It would need to hande passing values in from BruControl and reading values back into BruControl.

Thanks for the tip. I have seen this in some home automation software. Not sure the level of risk/reliability, but we'll discuss it.